| Maxine
Chernoff
[a dollar love]
his death
would be
the first future
to break (gently)
when it came
(confidence based
on a rate of exchange)
& love’s
poor stowaway
innocent
or calculated –
(marriage and children
Reno and divorce)
compared to
the love
that knows
no future –
hollow
emptied
spare in its vows
which,
without language
speaks
of not holding. |
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summer
2004 |